Your Organization, Your Story

Your Organization was started to change the world. (Read that again). You are involved in a mission to change the world and that’s a story just about anyone wants to be a part of!  – An excerpt from The Nonprofit Narrative: How Stories Can Save the World authored by Dan Portnoy. If you don’t believe Read More …

How to Create a Story for your Organization

The Nonprofit Narrative: How Stories Can Save the World authored by Dan Portnoy is one of the best introductions on how to tell your story as a For-Profit or Non-Profit organization. This might be an endorsement; I own the book in both audio and as a Kindle. The book is short, to the point and Read More …

Is there a Lack of Commitment in Agile, Kanban?

A while back, I had a podcast with Yuval Yeret is a senior Agile Consultant on the AgileSparks team who focuses on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. See what Yuval says about commitment… Related Podcast and Transcription: Kanban and Scrum: A Mixed Approach Joe:  That’s interesting, because commitment does seem that when Read More …

Is Kanban Iterative or Linear?

Mattias Skarin  author of the book, Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both put it this way… Joe: If that prioritization is changing all the time, it seems more like an iteration, and it’s hard to get an iteration within Kanban because Kanban seems to be a linear process. Can you elaborate on Read More …

What are the Boundaries of Kanban?

I discussed the “Boundaries of Kanban” with Markus Andrezak in a past podcast. Most people always want to expand the boundaries of everything they talk about. So, I had to ask him, “What are are the boundaries?” Related Podcast and Transcription: The Boundaries of Kanban An excerpt from the conversation: Markus: What happened was that Read More …

Having an Effective Conversation

An innovation and strategy consultant, Chris Ertel has years of experience advising senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and large nonprofit. Chris talks about his new book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change in this Business901 Podcast. I thought this excerpt from the podcast was a great “How Read More …